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| 2 | Babes
in Toyland Holiday Social hosted by the Program Committee |
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| 2 | Today Belongs To CONNIE GOODWIN |  |
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The Out to Lunch
Bunch Goes Out to Lunch |
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Wine Tasters "I
am drinking the stars" |
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Holiday Party at Tamaya |
| 7 | Pearl Harbor Day |  |
| All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. ~Benjamin Franklin |
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Chocolate Class
at Community Center, 12:30 - 2 p.m. "Chocolate in the Dark," $2. Includes truffles, fudge, and another dark chocolate treat. By Cathryne Richards |
| 9 | Bridge at Connie Goodwin's |
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Trippers to Utility Shack |
| 10 | Trippers 2010
Planning Meeting at Pam Buethe's |
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| 11 | Nonfiction Book
Group at Irene Gale's |
 Peggy Pond Church |
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| 11 | Hanukkah begins at sundown |
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| The eight candles of the menorah must be arranged in a straight, even line, not in a zigzag or with some lights higher than others. If it is an oil menorah, the oil cups must hold enough oil to burn for the required time – at least 30 minutes on weeknights, and up to one-and-a-half hours on Friday evening. If it is a candle menorah, the candles should be large enough to burn for the required time. Electric menorahs are great for display purposes and are a wonderful medium for publicizing the Chanukah miracle, but the Chanukah lights used to fulfill the mitzvah should be real flames fueled by wax or oil – like the flames in the Holy Temple. |
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Poinsettia Day |
| The plants' association with Christmas began in 16th century Mexico, where legend tells of a young girl who was too poor to provide a gift for the celebration of Jesus' birthday. The child was inspired by an angel to gather weeds from the roadside and place them in front of the church altar. Crimson "blossoms" sprouted from the weeds and became beautiful poinsettias. From the 17th century, Franciscan friars in Mexico included the plants in their Christmas celebrations. |
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The Happy Bookers at AND Holiday
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 Joseph O'Neill |
| 15 | The View Finders Lunch at The Range |
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Bill of Rights Day |
| I believe that the great mass of the people who opposed the Constitution disliked it because it did not contain effectual provision against encroachments on particular rights, and those safeguards which they have been long accustomed to have interposed between them and the magistrate who exercised the sovereign power: nor ought we to consider them safe, while a great number of our fellow citizens think these securities necessary. ~James Madison |
| 16 | Lunch Bunch at Connie Goodwin's |
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did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? ~Dr. Seuss |
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TWO
Birthdays Today: LUCY NOYES and LIN ROBINSON |
| 18 | First of Muharram |
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| The tenth day of Muharram is called Yaumu-l 'Ashurah, meaning, ‘the tenth day’, and it is a day of voluntary fasting. Shia Muslims stop eating and drinking during sunlight hours and do not eat until the evening. Sunni Muslims also fast during Muharram and on either the ninth or the eleventh day, the choice of which additional day being at the discretion of the individual. |
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Game Night at Cathryne Richards' |
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TO. . . DIANE WISE |
| 20 | The Adelante
Diners Progressive Dinner |
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| 21 | Winter Solstice |  |
| The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. ~John Burroughs |
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Another Candle
For PAM NEAS |
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Christmas Day |
| Christmas
is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself... ~Norman Wesley Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas," 1976 |
| 26 | Kwanzaa |  |
| Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| 31 | TWO Birthdays
Today SUSAN PETERSEN and BARBARA ROSNER |
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